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Kaminaljuyú, Mound A 7, reconstruction view and plan of appearance during Early Classic period, c. AD 300

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Description: The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples
The Cordilleran highland region of Chiapas, Guatemala, and Salvador is a mountainous land bridge favouring east-west transit. Its volcanoes mark the southern boundaries of Classic Maya civilization. Repeated invasions of these highland valleys and Pacific plains from the Gulf Coast and from the mountains of Mexico occurred in all pre-Columbian periods, with the result that Maya culture was never dominant in the region, even if, from Chiapas to the Río Lempa, different dialects of the Maya …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.325-340
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00123.015

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